split lip rayfield's last stand
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with the grandparents in town, i got a chance to go out for a few hours and see a local phenom named split lip rayfield at the bottleneck. they call themselves alt bluegrass and it was an experience i'm glad i got to see. definitely not a cali thing.
the shuffling around the bar pre-show music was the replacements and X and i thought "alright, I can dig this", then it started heating up as they came out to 'reign in blood' by slayer. hilarious. the one guy is playing a gas tank with one fishing line across it for a bass. bizarre hillbilly action for sure, but the right sense of humor. the guitarist on the left has been undergoing chemo for cancer and was told that he had 2-6 months to live and decided to cut the chemo and go have fun and most likely die doing it. this may be one of their last shows and the locals love them. i loved that spirit as i think most people there did. they were all there to celebrate that lack of self-pity and go down swinging attitude. it was a pretty amazing scene, so far from what i grew up with. white people can be so awkward.
someone had a small baby at dinner and when he went to pass it to his wife, i reached over for it in my delirium.
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with the grandparents in town, i got a chance to go out for a few hours and see a local phenom named split lip rayfield at the bottleneck. they call themselves alt bluegrass and it was an experience i'm glad i got to see. definitely not a cali thing.
the shuffling around the bar pre-show music was the replacements and X and i thought "alright, I can dig this", then it started heating up as they came out to 'reign in blood' by slayer. hilarious. the one guy is playing a gas tank with one fishing line across it for a bass. bizarre hillbilly action for sure, but the right sense of humor. the guitarist on the left has been undergoing chemo for cancer and was told that he had 2-6 months to live and decided to cut the chemo and go have fun and most likely die doing it. this may be one of their last shows and the locals love them. i loved that spirit as i think most people there did. they were all there to celebrate that lack of self-pity and go down swinging attitude. it was a pretty amazing scene, so far from what i grew up with. white people can be so awkward.
someone had a small baby at dinner and when he went to pass it to his wife, i reached over for it in my delirium.
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